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Some places remember what the world has forgotten. When a former Royal Navy petty officer returns to a remote island in the South Atlantic with his teenage daughter, he is forced to confront a secret he has carried for thirty years. What begins as a long deferred journey of nostalgia soon reawakens memories of an isolated shore, strange children, and an unspoken tragedy buried beneath stone and peat. In Diddle Dee, Michael Rothery weaves a haunting supernatural tale where landscape and memory intertwine.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A meteorite falls into the sea off the coast of Maine. Inside the recovered fragment lies a notebook of unknown metallic substance, its pages covered in classical Greek: the testimony of a man who was not of our world, and perhaps not of our time. He...

"By One, By Two, and By Three", first published in Temple Bar in 1887, tells the story of Angus Macbane, an enigmatic Cambridge scholar whose sardonic wit, fascination with witchcraft and lifelong air of mystery set him apart from everyone around him. Recounted through the eyes of his friend Eliot, what begins as the portrait of an eccentric young man gradually unfolds into a tale of suspicion, supernatural terror and an ancient family curse. An adaptation of the story aired in the United States in February 1972 as part of Rod Serling's Night Gallery.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Mr Wraxall is an English travel writer of modest means and considerable curiosity, gathering material in a quiet corner of Sweden. His hosts at the manor house are hospitable, the family archives are extensive, and the more he reads of the estate's...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Beside a still lake in the land of Mnar stood Ib, a city of grey stone as old as the lake itself, inhabited by beings that were not men. When the shepherd folk came and raised Sarnath a league away, they looked upon their neighbours with loathing, and...

The story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which legendarily protect the country from invasion. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.

A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.

This is a story from the Classic Ghost Stories collection.

“In Amundsen's Tent" is short horror fiction inspired in part by various expeditions to the South Pole, beginning in the late 1890s. These culminated in the famous effort led by Roald Amundsen, who was the first to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. "In Amundsen’s Tent" is about a three-man expedition to Antarctica arriving at the deserted camp of an earlier trio of explorers. In the tent is the journal of Robert Drumgold, who with two other men, perished mysteriously near the South Pole....

Twenty-four short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be listened to in the dark, perhaps with a light, crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. Can Such Things Be? implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time.

It was the eye. The dull, sightless, vulture's eye that shredded his final nerve. But the murder was done so carefully, so perfectly, that only one thing could reveal the whereabouts of the body. B. J. Harrison gives a masterful reading of the famous murder that wouldn't keep quiet. This audiobook was the #3 best-selling audiobook in 2008 at the iTunes Music Store!

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as...

The Horror Collection (Extreme Edition) marks a brutal milestone for KJK Publishing as the series unleashes its 11th volume—and one of its most dangerous yet. One of only three themed entries in the entire collection, this special edition dives headfirst into the darkest corner of the genre: extreme horror.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is celebrated for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is one of his most famous. In it, the narrator tells how, without any motive, but merely because he is obsessed with his eye (“The eye of a vulture”), he murders an old man, and of the consequences when the murdered man's heart seeks revenge.

At Moran & Moran, James Moran deals in antiques touched by the supernatural. When the dead come calling, he is the one left to answer. Join James as he investigates a haunted microphone shadowed by a long-buried betrayal, encounters a soul drifting through its own home in denial of its fate, and confronts a vengeful spirit hidden inside an exquisite Japanese doll that turns love into violent fury.

There are places beyond human understanding, where ancient beings stir, impossible geometries hide, and forbidden knowledge comes at a terrible price. From haunted lakes and blighted forests to extra-dimensional horrors and the infamous Witch House of Arkham, these seven tales explore the terrifying insignificance of mankind before the unknown. Including: The Spirits of the Lake by Alonzo Deen Cole, The House of the Worm by Mearle Prout, The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long, The Scourge of B'Moth by Bertram Russell, The Warder of Knowledge by Richard F.

"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a Cthulhu Mythos story, written in 1932 and first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales Magazine. The story follows Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, who rents a room in the infamous Witch House of Arkham. The house was once home to Keziah Mason, a 17th-century witch rumoured to have escaped from Salem through non-Euclidean geometry.

At Moran & Moran, James Moran trades in relics that pulse with the echoes of the past. When the dead refuse to let go, he is the one who must uncover why. Join James as he stumbles into a dying town where the dead still hold the living hostage, contends with a haunted typewriter that turns his shop upside down in ways he never expected, and comes face to face with the ghost of a literary legend whose identity may not be all it seems.

Join Penelope Black for her second episode, as she discusses a double bloody feature. One woman gets slaughtered by a derailed train and a serial killer becomes unhinged when he can't collect his... Trophy.

"The Inn by Doomsday Falls" is a short story by regular Weird Tales contributor, Allison V. Harding (allegedly the pen name of Jean Milligan, 1919–2004), first published in the November 1947 edition of Weird Tales.